[London, UK] The National Audit Office has urged the NHS and the Department of Health to ‘get their act together’ and strengthen cyber defence capabilities of the health service in England following ...

The WannaCry ransomware cyber attack cost the National Health Service almost £100m and led to the cancellation of 19,000 appointments, the Department of Health has revealed. A patch to protect against ...

NHS managers who silence whistleblowers will be banned from taking up other senior health service roles, the Government has announced. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said the ...

MPs on influential committee excoriate health department and NHS England for errors costing £3.6bn a year ...

The cost of the May 2017 WannaCry attack, which disrupted services at one-third of NHS trusts and resulted in more than 19,000 GP appointments being cancelled, is estimated at £92m – £19m in lost ...

NHS Trusts underestimated the impact on patients when drastically cutting agency staff levels during the busy last quarter of 2025.

Government unsure how many NHS staff will be affected by immigration changes - Labour announced proposed changes to ...

The NHS and Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) have still not learned lessons from previous IT programmes and risk repeating old mistakes, according to members of Parliament. A Public ...

A new “one stop shop” will showcase cutting-edge technologies to NHS hospitals while also slashing red tape, the Government has announced. The digital platform – MedTech Compass – aims to bring ...

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